Maggie lives on
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• Iveco UK has bowed to the common parlance of the truck industry by naming its new eight-wheel tipper, the 300.25, as the New Maggie.
Launching the model at the Tipcon exhibition in Harrogate Last week, sales and marketing director David Gill said the Maggie nickname had stuck so much to the now discontinued Magirus eight-wheel tipper that it is being used for the promotion of the new model, but not on its badges.
Gill says the company is looking for sales of about 150 300.25s a year, up from only 95 last year.
Last year, lveco secured a 4.7% share of the eight-wheel tipper market, but in its heyday in the early Seventies, the old Magirus model peaked at 10%.
The new model uses day and sleeper versions of the standard Total Efficiency Concept cab from lveco's tractive unit range, but retains a large naturally-aspirated Deutz air-cooled engine — the V8 F8L513 rated at 188kW (255hp) — to meet the demands of the tipper market.
According to Gill, the V8, which offers 23% more torque of 889Nni (656 lbft), is a better bet for tipping than a small turbocharged engine. A turbocharged version of the V8 is to be offered later.
Two gearboxes, a ninespeed ZE 9S-109GP synchromesh with 12.92:1 ratio spread, and a nine-speed Fuller RT7609 constant mesh with 13.07:1 ratio spread, are offered on the 300.25. Wheelbases are 5.960min and 6,460mm.
Standard specification also includes double-drive hub reduction axles with inter-axle and transverse diff locks, parabolic springs, high articulation rear bogie, air operated exhaust brake and full-air Stoprnaster wedge-actuated brakes.